Barrister loses patience as he condemns former Post Office executive: ‘That’s just word soup’

Barrister loses patience with former Post Office executive: 'That's just word soup'Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry

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00:00The intention was never linked to a payment for his loss of life. That was never the intention.

00:05They had a live claim with Second Sight, didn't they, that was being mediated about the losses,

00:11the alleged losses, the shortfalls.

00:13So there was an application into the scheme, yes.

00:17This is going to be conditional on dropping that too, wasn't it?

00:20That was the broader piece of the network transformation. It covered everything.

00:25What does that mean? That's just word soup.

00:27That was the broader piece of the network transformation thing.

00:30So what I ask you, Miss Vanden Bogaard, is this payment was going to be conditional

00:36upon the family withdrawing the claim that they'd made under the mediation scheme, wasn't it?

00:43Yes, because that's the way the network transformation payment was set out.